Basic Info
Title:
Museum Hours
Genre:
Drama
Country:
Austria, United States
Language:
German, English
Running
time: 106 minutes
Release
date: 8 August 2012 (Locarno International Film
Festival), 28 June 2013 (United States), 6 September 2013 (United Kingdom)
Staff
Director:
Jem Cohen
Produced by: Jem Cohen, Paolo Calamita, Gabriele
Kranzelbinder, Guy Picciotto, Patti Smith
Screenplay: Jem Cohen
Music: Mary Margaret O'Hara
Cinematography:
Jem Cohen, Peter Roehsler
Edited
by: Jem Cohen, Marc Vives
Cast
Mary Margaret O'Hara as Anne
Bobby Sommer as Johann
Ela Piplits as Gerda Pachner
Summary
“Museum Hours” is a 2012
Austrian-American drama film written and directed by Jem Cohen. The film is set
in and around the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
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| The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria |
Premiered at the 2012 Locarno
International Film Festival, the film had its North American premiere at the
2012 Toronto International Film Festival and screened at U.S. film festivals
such as South by Southwest and Maryland Film Festival. This film was
distributed to the United States by The Cinema Guild.
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| The (Great) Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (c.1563) |
Plot
When a guard of the
Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna become friends with an enigmatic visitor,
the museum becomes a crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the
city, and the ways art reflects and shapes the world.
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| The Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (1565) |
One winter day, Johan, a guard at
the Kunsthistorisches Museum, encounters Anne, who came to Vienna for the first
time because of her cousin’s medical emergency. Never having been to Austria and
with little money, she wanders the city, taking the museum as her refuge.
Johann, initially wary, helps her and they are drawn into each other's world.
(Continue).
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| The Peasant Wedding, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (1567) |
Movie
Review
“Bonds us to a world of
stillness”
“We Are All Subjects in a
Painting by Pieter Bruegel”
“One of Those Movies That
Help Us See Better And Think”
“Fascinating Meditation on
the Relationship between Art and Life”
“A clean blend between
fine arts and human emotions”
“Elegant Post-Modern
Masterpiece”
“Something different”
“Like going to an art museum
without leaving home”
Thank you.
Remarks: The background music for YouTube video is not the soundtrack of the film, but randomly selected.
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